He has been criticized as mean, sexist and profane, but the comic says that's all a part of his trash-talking alter ego. From a peak of sellout crowds to a low of working 300-seat rooms in Vegas, Clay now wants to reinvent himself with a semi-autobiographical cable series.

Of the 990 people shot and killed by police last year, the names of officers in 210 of those cases were not released, according to a Washington Post investigation. Experts say there is little consensus among departments on whether officers' names should be made public.

A 20-year-old rule that was suspended in many places during the recession requires that adults without children or disabilities have a job to receive food stamps for more than three months, and today is that cutoff for many recipients.

What happened in North Carolina was a classic countermove in the modern conflict over gay rights. When liberal cities enact laws to protect LGBT people, conservative state governments respond by preempting them.